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Hosted By: National Sexual Violence Resource Center
 

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
 

Description: This webinar from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and Just Detention International (JDI) suggests how you can communicate about sexual violence as something that men experience, and about what services are available at your sexual assault services program for men who are survivors. We’ll share some tips for raising awareness in your community that men experience sexual violence and for letting men know that your sexual assault program is here to help. We’ll also invite you to reflect and share your ideas for how to use these strategies in your community.
 

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change

 

Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2023, at 5:00AM ChST

 

Description: Join Inspire Action for Part 3 of our five-part series “Leadership & Sustainability Strategies for Supervised Visitation Programs.” This series is designed to provide supervised visitation programs with new ideas and inspiration in core values, trauma-informed, equity-centered leadership, and financial sustainability. In this series, participants can gain skills to build robust and lasting visitation programs that provide safety and healing for parents and children experiencing intimate partner abuse. Part 3 will focus on TraumaInformed, Equity-Centered Leadership, with guest trainer Erin Fairchild.

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change
 

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 3:00am - 6:00am ChST
 

Description: Supervised Visitation Immersion Training is a virtual six-session intensive, energetic, and inspiring training event that provides supervised visitation staff and community partners with a hands-on, interactive opportunity to enhance the skills needed to operate a visitation center while learning how to best serve families who have been impacted by intimate partner violence. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, have fun, and gain new skills and practices that will help provide enhanced safety for the survivors of intimate partner violence and children who use your center.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Beth McNamara
beth@inspireactionforsocialchange.org

Hosted By: American University

 

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 6:00am ChST

 

Description: This webinar is open to judicial officers, court staff, and family/civil attorneys only.
We ask those professionals who are not judicial officers, court staff, or family/civil attorneys to help us circulate this webinar opportunity to the judicial officers, court staff, and family/civil attorneys you work with. Any other professionals interested in viewing the recording and accessing the materials following the webinar can email drocha@wcl.american.edu.
Stalking is a crime that warrants special attention by courts because victims report experiencing stalking at much higher rates than the justice system identifies it, including cases involving immigrant survivors. Stalking can appear in any type of case and so judicial officers should consider stalking in all types of legal proceedings; it is particularly important to look for indicators when the parties know one another and/or there is evidence of ongoing harmful contact. Whichever type of case stalking occurs in, judicial officers are encouraged to make specific findings of fact regarding stalking, sign U and T visa certifications, and issue detailed orders designed to stop stalking behaviors, hold offenders accountable, and prevent dangerous consequences. This webinar will assist judicial officers in identifying stalking behaviors and effectively responding to stalking as a standalone issue and as it intersects with domestic violence, human trafficking, and in many family and civil court cases.

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change
 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 9, 2023 3:00am - 6:00am ChST
 

Description: Supervised Visitation Immersion Training is a virtual six-session intensive, energetic, and inspiring training event that provides supervised visitation staff and community partners with a hands-on, interactive opportunity to enhance the skills needed to operate a visitation center while learning how to best serve families who have been impacted by intimate partner violence. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, have fun, and gain new skills and practices that will help provide enhanced safety for the survivors of intimate partner violence and children who use your center.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Beth McNamara
beth@inspireactionforsocialchange.org

Hosted By: National Network to End Domestic Violence

 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 5:00AM ChST

 

Description: This webinar will focus on confidentiality issues that may come up when responding to emergency situations such as injury, illness, or death in shelter or at a local program.

*We can not guarantee accessibility requests made less than two weeks before the event

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity

 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 5:00AM ChST

 

Description: While news media has reported a decline of international student enrollment in U.S. colleges from China, the international student population from Asia remains the largest. This webinar will discuss what happens when sexual assault victims are international students, the unique challenges of supporting them, and strategies to improve advocacy.

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women, Inc.

 

Date/Time: Friday, March 10, 2023 at 2:00am - 5:00am ChST

 

Description: Have domestic violence survivors ever asked you if they can leave the state with their children to escape from abuse? The Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women (LRC), in partnership with the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, will be offering an interactive legal training on interstate custody issues for LAV grantees and others on March 9, 2023 EDT. The training will be delivered through two consecutive Zoom webinars. Faculty will include Deborah Goelman, Darren Mitchell, Maria Veniard, and Taylor Duran. The LRC is OVW’s technical assistance provider on interstate civil legal issues. The training is designed for attorneys who may be new to this area of law. Faculty will provide participants with an overview of the various federal and state laws that govern interstate custody cases and an opportunity to practice making legal arguments to protect survivors. The program will cover how to interview survivors who are contemplating relocation and how to provide legal advice on the economic, safety and legal issues involved when survivors cross state lines with their children.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Contact Information - Project Coordinator (301) 270-1550 tduran@lrcvaw.org

Hosted By: ValorUS 
 

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 6:00am ChST
 

Description: This two-part web conference series will provide sexual assault advocates with a foundation for being able to provide appropriate support and advocacy to sexual assault survivors with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The first session in this series will provide information on the different types of intellectual and developmental disabilities, the landscape of services available to people with I/DD in California, the basics of conservatorship and mandated reporting, and how ableism intersects with sexual violence. Join VALOR and the Arc of California to build capacity for serving survivors with I/DD. Learning Objectives Participants will be able to identify and describe intellectual and developmental disability and services in the state of California Participants will be able to explain the basics of mandated reporting and conservatorship in California Participants will be able to summarize the importance of language & terminology Participants will be able to describe ableism and its impact on sexual assault
 

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change
 

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 3:00am - 6:00am ChST
 

Description: Supervised Visitation Immersion Training is a virtual six-session intensive, energetic, and inspiring training event that provides supervised visitation staff and community partners with a hands-on, interactive opportunity to enhance the skills needed to operate a visitation center while learning how to best serve families who have been impacted by intimate partner violence. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, have fun, and gain new skills and practices that will help provide enhanced safety for the survivors of intimate partner violence and children who use your center.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Beth McNamara
beth@inspireactionforsocialchange.org

 

Hosted By: National Resource Center on Domestic Violence 

 

Date/Time: Saturday, March 15, 2023, at 5:00am - 6:30am ChST

 

Description: When BIPOC and other survivors are in danger, who do they turn to, what support do they want? In this webinar, Lisa Goodman will present the findings of a first-of- its-kind research exploring these questions. It will also feature the leadership and guidance of Kelly Coyne and Lisa O’Connor, who will discuss client-centered practices and how applying a race lens to all aspects of Safe Horizon has strengthened advocacy for survivors and supported advocates, particularly those who are BIPOC.

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change
 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 16, 2023 3:00am - 6:00am ChST
 

Description: Supervised Visitation Immersion Training is a virtual six-session intensive, energetic, and inspiring training event that provides supervised visitation staff and community partners with a hands-on, interactive opportunity to enhance the skills needed to operate a visitation center while learning how to best serve families who have been impacted by intimate partner violence. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, have fun, and gain new skills and practices that will help provide enhanced safety for the survivors of intimate partner violence and children who use your center.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Beth McNamara
beth@inspireactionforsocialchange.org

Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change

 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 4:00AM ChST

 

Description: Join Inspire Action for Part 4 of our five-part series “Leadership & Sustainability Strategies for Supervised Visitation Programs.” This series is designed to provide supervised visitation programs with new ideas and inspiration in core values, trauma-informed, equity-centered leadership, and financial sustainability. In this series, participants can gain skills to build robust and lasting visitation programs that provide safety and healing for parents and children experiencing intimate partner abuse. Part 4 focuses on Transitioning into Leadership, with guest trainer Alicia Williamson, Director of Training and Program Services for the Ohio Domestic Violence Network.

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Futures Without Violence
 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 5:00am ChST

 

Description:Systems of inequality increase vulnerability to human trafficking, domestic, and sexual violence. Supporting survivors of human trafficking requires an intersectional and equity-centered lens to decrease barriers to accessing resources. This webinar will review the ways that human trafficking can intersect with domestic and sexual violence, how to engrain equity and cultural responsiveness in your support of survivors, and the power of collaborative relationships to better support (serve) survivors.

As a result of this presentation, you will be better able to: - Identify the various ways human trafficking can intersect with domestic violence and sexual assault. - Apply principles of equity in supporting survivors of human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence. - Identify strategies to support survivors of human trafficking within domestic and sexual assault organizations, and in collaboration with others in your community

. Prensenter Bio: Kiricka Yarbough Smith is an independent consultant with expertise in human trafficking, cultural diversity and cultural sensitivity, collaboration, and the development of rapid response teams (RRT). Ms. Smith is certified in cultural diversity and cultural competency. She has trained law enforcement and service providers on collaboration, coordination, and building an agency’s capacity to serve all victims of trafficking.

This project is supported by Grant# 15JOVW-21-GK-02211-MUMU, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

 

Location: Virtual

 

Hosted By: National Network for Victims of Crimes
 

Date/Time: Friday, March 17, 2023, at 2:00am ChST
 

Description: It may be challenging for many professionals who do not work directly with victims to identify or understand the connections between intimate partner violence and financial fraud and abuse. However, the Center for Financial Security states that financial abuse occurs in 99% of domestic violence cases.

 

With many victims choosing not to leave because of the financial implications, service providers and professionals must be able to help survivors and victims identify what these tactics look like while providing them with tangible solutions to mitigate risks.
 

Experts from the National Network to End Domestic Violence, The National Center for Victims of Crime, and the FINRA Investor’s Education Foundation will highlight the intersections of financial fraud, financial abuse, and intimate partner violence, provide attendees with tools to begin these much-needed conversations in their community, as well as offer resources and information to support survivors.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Hosted By: Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women, Inc.

 

Date/Time: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 2:00am - 5:00am ChST

 

Description: Have domestic violence survivors ever asked you if they can leave the state with their children to escape from abuse? The Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women (LRC), in partnership with the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, will be offering an interactive legal training on interstate custody issues for LAV grantees and others on March 9, 2023 EDT. The training will be delivered through two consecutive Zoom webinars. Faculty will include Deborah Goelman, Darren Mitchell, Maria Veniard, and Taylor Duran. The LRC is OVW’s technical assistance provider on interstate civil legal issues. The training is designed for attorneys who may be new to this area of law. Faculty will provide participants with an overview of the various federal and state laws that govern interstate custody cases and an opportunity to practice making legal arguments to protect survivors. The program will cover how to interview survivors who are contemplating relocation and how to provide legal advice on the economic, safety and legal issues involved when survivors cross state lines with their children.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Contact Information - Project Coordinator (301) 270-1550 tduran@lrcvaw.org

Hosted By: Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence

 

Date/Time: March 21, 2023, 8:00AM - 4:00PM

 

Description: About the Training:
Join GCASAFV and our training partners to address sexual assault and domestic violence and explore a journey to healing. Please note that this training will feature three different tracks including topics on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Journey to Healing. Attendees will have the option to attend different breakout sessions with presentations on varying topics.

Conference Agenda at a Glance:

Day One, Tuesday - March 21, 2023
8:00AM - 8:30AM ~ Check-in
8:30AM - 12:00PM ~ Plenary Sessions 1-4
12:00PM - 1:30PM ~ Lunch Break (on your own)
1:30PM - 4:00PM ~ Plenary Sessions 5-7

Day Two, Wednesday - March 22, 2023
8:00AM - 8:30AM ~ Check-in
8:30AM - 12:00PM ~ Breakout Sessions
12:00PM - 1:30PM ~ Lunch Break (on your own)
1:30PM - 4:00PM ~ Breakout Sessions

Location: Westin Resort Guam
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change
 

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 3:00am - 6:00am ChST
 

Description: Supervised Visitation Immersion Training is a virtual six-session intensive, energetic, and inspiring training event that provides supervised visitation staff and community partners with a hands-on, interactive opportunity to enhance the skills needed to operate a visitation center while learning how to best serve families who have been impacted by intimate partner violence. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, have fun, and gain new skills and practices that will help provide enhanced safety for the survivors of intimate partner violence and children who use your center.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Beth McNamara
beth@inspireactionforsocialchange.org

Hosted By: Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence

 

Date/Time: March 22, 2023, 8:00AM - 4:00PM

 

Description: About the Training:
Join GCASAFV and our training partners to address sexual assault and domestic violence and explore a journey to healing. Please note that this training will feature three different tracks including topics on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Journey to Healing. Attendees will have the option to attend different breakout sessions with presentations on varying topics.

Conference Agenda at a Glance:

Day One, Tuesday - March 21, 2023
8:00AM - 8:30AM ~ Check-in
8:30AM - 12:00PM ~ Plenary Sessions1-4
12:00PM - 1:30PM ~ Lunch Break (on your own)
1:30PM - 4:00PM ~ Plenary Sessions 5-7

Day Two, Wednesday - March 22, 2023
8:00AM - 8:30AM ~ Check-in
8:30AM - 12:00PM ~ Breakout Sessions
12:00PM - 1:30PM ~ Lunch Break (on your own)
1:30PM - 4:00PM ~ Breakout Sessions

Location: Westin Resort Guam
 

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Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change
 

Date/Time: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:00am - 6:00am ChST
 

Description: Supervised Visitation Immersion Training is a virtual six-session intensive, energetic, and inspiring training event that provides supervised visitation staff and community partners with a hands-on, interactive opportunity to enhance the skills needed to operate a visitation center while learning how to best serve families who have been impacted by intimate partner violence. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, have fun, and gain new skills and practices that will help provide enhanced safety for the survivors of intimate partner violence and children who use your center.
 

Location: Virtual

 

Beth McNamara
beth@inspireactionforsocialchange.org

Hosted By: Public Policy Exchange

 

Date/Time: Friday, March 24, 2023, 3:30am - 7:00am ChST

 

Description: According to the National Statistics on Domestic Violence, around 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. On average this is equal to more than 10 million women and men a year. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence. After experiencing abuse and violence, many individuals experience mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress order (PTSD) and depression, fear, thoughts of suicide, physical injury, and many other symptoms that are silent to the rest of the world. As the National Statistics on Domestic Violence continues to detail, “intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime.” Additionally, 19% of all domestic violence cases involve weapons. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%.

Statistics also reveal that women between the ages of 18 and 24 are at the most risk of domestic violence. In speaking about gender-based violence, it’s important to note that race also is a key component of who is more at risk of suffering from domestic violence. According to the Intersection of Domestic Violence, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex of New York City, a brief used by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to tackle domestic and gender-based violence, Black and Hispanic women are more prevalent of being victims. “The race/ethnicity analysis shows that Black New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted across every domestic violence offense analyzed. Sometimes, as in the disproportionate impact associated with domestic violence homicide, felony assault and strangulation, the impact is double that would be expected based on population. Other marginalized groups, such as Hispanics, experienced disproportionate impacts as they relate to domestic violence rapes and sex offenses.” While this is specifically for New York, across the country we can see higher rates of domestic violence for Black and Hispanic individuals, versus that of other ethnicities. Does geography play any part in helping to avoid or limit this from occurring? According to a study done by DovePress in 2011 on women in Nigeria, “the prevalence of domestic violence among rural women was significantly higher than that among urban women.” Similarly in the United States, NCBI reports that “in particular, subjects living in isolated rural areas reported a higher frequency and much higher severity of abuse than did their urban counterparts. For example, 61.5% of isolated rural women reported four or more events of physical violence in the past year compared with 39.3% of urban women.” The highest rate of domestic violence in the United States occurs in Oklahoma. According to World Population Review, “about 49.1% of Oklahoma women and 40.7% of Oklahoma men experience domestic violence in their lifetimes, including intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner rape, or intimate partner stalking. This is the highest in the United States."

According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, many times abuse is not recognized as so. “Recognizing abuse is the first step.” Things like cultural context can also influence what is categorized or viewed as abuse. “Domestic violence can affect anyone, but the way in which it appears may manifest itself or be received differently depending on the setting in which it occurs. Cultural context can play a large role in a survivor’s decision to leave an abusive relationship. The specific cultural setting may be determined by your race, gender, sexuality, class, education, etc.” Domestic violence also affects people around the abused victim, as most witnesses tend to be young children who grow up with the trauma of seeing physical violence in their own environment. As the National Domestic Violence Hotline continues to exemplify, “abuse is a learned behavior,” which is why it is not healthy for young individuals to be exposed to this type of trauma. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was passed in 1994 to ensure that domestic violence be charged as a national crime. However, many times cases take years to get settled or people are hesitant to report because they don't feel like the law is on their side, particularly for women. How can policy be more transparent to ensure victims that their voices are heard, and prevent future cases? This symposium seeks to address the leading causes of domestic violence, including ways to stop it from happening and how to define abuse and recognize abusive behavior. Delegates Will:

• Identify the main causes of domestic violence and discuss risk factors as well as the impact of geography and race/ethnicity on vulnerability.
• Discuss gender-based violence and why women are a higher statistic in domestic abuse, as well as how LGBTQ+ minorities are impacted by domestic violence.
• Examine what leads individuals to take part in abusive behavior, and the role that witnessing domestic abuse at a young age plays in this factor.
• Understand the psychological effects that domestic violence has on those that have been victims of abuse.
• Analyze ways that policy can help prevent domestic violence from rising by analyzing current legislation and looking at ways to move forward.
• Discuss the impact that geographical location and economic status have on making individuals vulnerable to domestic violence abuse.
• Explore ways that COVID-19 impacted the rise of domestic violence and where those statistics are at now.
• Develop effective strategies for protecting and supporting survivors of domestic abuse, from both a national and regional perspective.

Location: virtual

 

 

Hosted By: ValorUS 
 

Date/Time: Friday, March 24, 2023 at 8:30am ChST
 

Description: This two-part web conference series will provide sexual assault advocates with a foundation for being able to provide appropriate support and advocacy to sexual assault survivors with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The second session in this series will explore the prevalence and incidence of sexual violence and people with I/DD and the impacts of trauma on people with I/DD. Additionally, the session will introduce person-centered services and provide information on accommodations and accessibility. Join VALOR and the Arc of California to build capacity for serving survivors with I/DD. Learning Objectives Participants will be able to describe the prevalence of sexual violence for people with IDD Participants will be able to identify risk factors for experiencing sexual assault and barriers to accessing services Participants will examine the impacts of trauma on people with IDD Participants will be able to describe person centered services Participants will be able to evaluate accommodations & accessibility strengths and weaknesses in their own organizations
 

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges 
 

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 4:00am ChST

 

Description: Join us for an informative companion presentation to NCJFCJ’s technical

assistance brief of the same name. This event will delve into the current dynamics of teen-dating violence (TDV) and provide strategies for working with both young victims and respondents. With the ability to exercise an important role from the bench, judges have the opportunity to promote collaboration, change and provide the necessary relief to best meet the needs of youthful parties. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the best ways to issue relief and make a real impact in TDV.

Location: virtual
 

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Hosted By: Futures Without Violence

 

Date/Time: Friday, March 31, 2023, at 4:00am

 

Description: Part Three of Three: Empowerment and Collective Leadership, Survivor- Centered Strategies Webinar

 

Increasingly, survivor-serving organizations are practicing power sharing, collective leadership, co-director models, and other forms of co-designing and decision-making approaches. These transitions are a way to engage staff as leaders at all levels of the organization, build stronger teams, support professional development, and create an organizational culture centered in equity.  
 

For this 90-minute webinar, two culturally-specific organizations will share about their collective structures and empowerment-based leadership journeys, strategies, lessons learned, and tips for practice.

DeafHope has a collective leadership structure consisting of Empowerment Directors. Their model promotes survivor-centered advocacy and community accountability at the forefront of the movement to end violence in the Deaf Community. DeafHope will share about their evolution with respect to adaptation of policies, communication systems, and financial management to reflect as much of a co-leadership framework as possible. Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) practices their value of shared leadership with a structure built around the concepts of distributed and collective leadership. Their abilities and shared work are complimented across their internal Leadership Team, work teams, and leadership committees within the community membership. MUA will share about their shared leadership model and capacity building strategies that have strengthen their organization and participants of their programs, who are mostly survivors of gender-based violence.

Presenters: DeafHope & Mujeres Unidas y Activas **Closed Captioning, American Sign Language Interpretation, and Spanish interpretation will be provided**

Location: Virtual

 

Hosted By: Inspire Action for Social Change

 

Date/Time: Friday, March 31, 2023, at 4:00AM ChST

 

Description: Join Inspire Action for Part 5 of our five-part series “Leadership & Sustainability Strategies for Supervised Visitation Programs.” This series is designed to provide supervised visitation programs with new ideas and inspiration in core values, trauma-informed, equity-centered leadership, and financial sustainability. In this series, participants can gain skills to build robust and lasting visitation programs that provide safety and healing for parents and children experiencing intimate partner abuse. Part 5 will focus on Financial Leadership and Sustainability, with guest trainer Deborah Seinkopf.

Location: virtual
 

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